I have taken a fresh look at our concept of the Earth as humanity's common mother and home. Some of my favorite women saints have inspired me with new levels of awareness and understanding.
COP28 showed Precious Donna Gift Jayno the complicated reality of efficiently and sustainably fighting climate change. But most importantly, she says, it confirmed her Catholic obligation to care for the environment.
How could I be a seeker of justice, an activist for restoration and embodied love, when so much termed "justice" felt morally murky? Was everything deemed "justice" actually good?
Too often, contemporary Christians envision faith as an escape from the world. St. Patrick shows us through his life and his prayer-song "The Deer's Cry" that salvation is actually found at the heart of the world.
In Botticelli's painting, Jesus as an infant holds up for us the promise of a forthcoming sweetness in the symbol of the pomegranate. Will we receive it, or will we look away?
Indigenous land reclamation is happening in many ways. Still lacking in the Catholic Church, however, is a truly systemic approach. Part of the solution could be reconfiguring the U.S. bishops' Black and Indian Mission Office.
The near-total lack of U.S. Catholic decarbonization commitments is a failure to live the church's evangelical mission. It is a social sin of omission that compromises moral commitments, including to protect human life.